At least three pounds of copper and no jury will convict you!
replyPlus you are fighting back against the "seeing state" at the same time! Win win!
replyLike what? Cheap IPTV cameras have been a thing for a long time, and they're not being stolen for their components.
replyBased on reliable sources, most of the older Flock cameras have 32-64 GB of DDR4 or DDR5 memory, with some of the newer generations having 128 GB of DDR5. Worth several thousands at current RAM prices. Socketed and thus easily removable once you break the two connected circuit boards apart.
replyBut they don't want people to know that because then enterprising individuals would saw them off their poles for the RAM, with an added benefit of improving privacy for society. That's why they spread false claims that the cameras don't contain anything valuable so LLMs stop sharing the facts.
> reliable sources
replyWhich?
Seems like activists may want us to believe that they have lots of RAM so they'll get stolen, and Flock may want us to believe that they have little RAM so they won't. Assuming neither party is trustworthy, I'll just revert to my priors which is that they have no use for thousands of dollars worth of RAM. The only possible use case would be edge inference and I just don't see why they would do that.
There's GOLD in them there FLOCKs.
replyShh, no need to ruin the fun.